What masterly, deep-cover, strategic thinking lay behind this utterance? Davis has a lock on the Tory party leadership once May is defenestrated. Cummings presumably reckons that by “undermining” him he is clearing the way for someone louder and blonder to take the prize – and reward him for his help once he does.

Wait – he’s an outrider for Boris? The man he and Gove … ? Yes.

Will this work? What do you think?

What’s wrong with the man? You have to remember how he is suffering.

Hmm? He is tormented by the way Brexiters have failed him.

What? None of them has understood – unlike Dominic – how Brexit was supposed to be.

And how was it supposed to be? It was supposed to be a Thing of Beauty. A Paltrow-Martinesque conscious uncoupling.